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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

6月 1942


Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

6月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Sadato Morifuji was a prominent member of the Honolulu business community before the war. He served in executive positions in a number of organizations, including the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the United Japanese Society. 

In the postwar years, he joined with other prominent businessmen and returning Nisei soldiers to create Central Pacific Bank, a financial institution catering to the islands' large Japanese American population. He served on the bank's charter board of directors along with fellow internees Koichi Iida (also the bank's first CEO), Lawrence T. Kagawa, Kazuyuki Kawano, and Kinzo Sayegusa.